Jude Bellingham’s Spanish is coming along well but at times he slips back into his mother tongue and that was certainly the case on Wednesday night when he stormed into the Real Madrid dressing room halfway through their win over Manchester United.
“I came in at half-time and I was saying f’ing this and f’ing that,” Bellingham, 20, said.
The subject of his ire was the Argentina defender Lisandro Martínez, who was sitting in the corridor in the United dressing room. The first time that the pair came to blows was in the early stages of this feisty friendly at the NRG Stadium in Houston.
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Martínez, a wily character, tried to knock Bellingham